A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 372.—Overgrowth of head obstructing ANOMALIES IX THE FORCES (>/? LABOR. j{)/ asserted that the size of children increases in successive pregnan-cies up to the fourth or fifth, and then stationary or evendecreases ; but there are important exceptions to this rule. 1 hewriter has seen the tenth child vastly exceed in size the nine pre-ceding ; it weighed 15 pounds, and it was necessary to deliverit by Cesarean section. The other children had been born natu-rally through a flat pelvis with a conjugate diameter oi nine centi-

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